[ur-whale]

>Today’s web let’s anyone spin up a fresh IP in seconds and use 100% open source software that they can freely modify to publish just about anything they want, while retaining full control of the entire stack down to the NIC, with total portability.

Entirely incorrect: none of the folks in my immediate social network would be able to do something like this. Only a techie would. And statistically, as a group, techies are a tiny minority.

[ACow_Adonis]

It's a bit like the old joke of the artist taking 5 minutes to sketch a portrait, but ten years of training to be able to do so.

Sure you can do those things in seconds, as long as you don't account for the 10 years it took to train in the tech background and ecosystem that them let's you do that in seconds.

I'm a techie/data scientist, but it would probably take me a week of reading and experimentation to put up something minimally useful, because I've got no explicit web development knowledge.

To my non techie friends, you might as well tell them to move a stone using the force...

[disgruntledphd2]

Just use wordpress. It's pretty simple to do, as long as you don't do anything crazy like develop locally.

Source: I spent a _long_ time fixing harcoded URLs in a wordpress site that my wife built locally.

[ur-whale]

What's a word press ?

[TeMPOraL]

It's an Internet service located at https://wordpress.com. As a subscriber, you get your own blog. It's free for the basic stuff, or you can become a paid subscriber to access more functionality.

(Key word being service. You don't own a blog, you rent it.)

[ur-whale]

That's either a rather funny answer or a very sad one.

[TeMPOraL]

If you open the box to check which one it is, be sure to catch the cat or remove the cat's body.

[disgruntledphd2]

This is fair.

I was just speaking as another data scientist/techie person, like the OP.

I do agree that it is 100% not easy for most people.

[jotm]

Right... Look, Facebook's interface looks 10x more confusing than WordPress to me. If I could manage to learn it, someone using Facebook can manage to follow a few step by step guides on WordPress.